Museum Monday: A Museum of Memorial Day Proportion: U.S. Military Heritage Memorialized in Photographs

USAMHI allows online visitors to search its digital collection

Telling your story with photographs is compelling. This fact is not lost on the U.S. Military as it engages its audience - the American public - in telling its story of the brave men and women who have served to protect their country in ways both mighty and modest.
The U.S. Army Military History Institute (USAMHI) holds well over 1.5 million photographs in its onsite Photograph Archive Collection. Over 10,000 images have been digitized and are available in their digital archive.

The Digitized Document System (DDS) of the Army Heritage and Education Center and the Military History Institute provides online access to images of a selection of materials in our collections such as: photographs, archival documents, oral histories, military publications, audio/video material and finding aids to its holdings. The collection continues to add more digitized photographs ever increasing the number in the digital archive.

The materials available online represent many different periods of American military history, branches of the Army, activities military forces take part in, and documentation. Some reference works are provided, including finding aids we have generated to help you find materials on topics of interest to you. In general, the materials selected for inclusion in the DDS are considered public domain and are not covered under copyright.

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